The House of
REPS passed (but barely) the
'Healthy, Hunger-Free
Kids Act of 2010.” It provides $4.5B to badly
underfunded child nutrition
programs. And unsurprisingly, 153 Republicans voted
against it — after
repeatedly trying to kill it. Are Republicans
nothing but obstruction-minded
when it comes to anything associated with the poor,
hungry, jobless, homeless
and/or the Obama administration, as many Democrats
have charged over the
past two years? It certainly is beginning to look
that way, especially
after a bill that helps provide for a school lunch
program for the nation’s
schoolchildren was blocked by Republicans Thursday.
The Michelle Obama-supported
legislation, the 'Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of
2010? (S.3307), even
passed the Republican hurdle of being paid for
within the measure, according
to OpenCongress.org.It
eventually passed, but not
without a lot of legislative wrangling and the
Republicans mounting a last-minute vote to stop it.
And why was the
GOP so eager to let America’s children go hungry?

I'm healthy. I'm skinny
is all,andnear blind since birth.
I get bread forbreakfast and lunch. As did my mom
during the pregnancy that produced me.
But FOOD STAMPS allow ME to get peanutbutter on it at night!
I'm fine, I guess.

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'It’s
not about making our children healthy and
active,” SCROOGE Rep. John Kline (R) of Minnesota
told Associated Press. 'We all
want to see our children healthy and active. This is
about spending and
the role of government and the size of government –
a debate about whether
we’re listening to our constituents or not.' Yet John Kline, like
John Boehner (who also voted
for children to go hungry),
wants to give tax cuts to rich people — which will
cost the government
about 20,000 times more
than the bill
to feed kids a lunch, just a healthy lunch!

You’d think
there’d be politicalhayto be made out of THE
SCANDAL of these jerks taking food out
of hungry kids’ mouths so that millionaires can buy
a few more baubles,
wouldn’t you? WHY DO PEOPLE STAY SO APATHETIC?

OR ARE YOU? Time to start
your own COMMUNITY POTLUCK DINNER/ ACTIVISM CLUB --a fun, ONCE
A MONTH MEETING, a celebration bringing LOTS NEW
FRIENDS from THE FINEST FOLKS ON YOUR BLOCK!